Arak Housing, Iran, Asia
 
 
Year1995latitude: 34° 4'
longitude: 49° 40'
Period
Initiator(s)
Planning organization
Nationality initiator(s)
Designer(s) / Architect(s)
Design organizationArssan Consulting Engineers
Inhabitants
Target population2,500
Town website
Town related linkshttp://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=1829
Literature

type of New Town: > scale of autonomy
New-Town-in-Town
Satellite
New Town
Company Town
> client
Private Corporation
Public Corporation
> policy
Capital
Decentralization
Industrialization
Resettlement
Economic
 
Housing and new town development for 2500 employees of an oil company. The development includes schools, a shopping centre, sporting facilities, parks, and a club house.

Although quite recent it is shapet like a fairly conventional garden city/ new town.

source: http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.tcl?site_id=1829

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